Advancing Smart and Sustainable Construction: Unveiling Barriers to Precast Concrete Adoption in the U.S. Building

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Issue		MATEC Web Conf. Volume 411, 2025 Joint 14^th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management (EPPM2024) and 5^th Zaytoonah Engineering Conference (ZEC2024)


Article Number		02005
Number of page(s)		10
Section		Construction Engineering, Materials, and Sustainability
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202541102005
Published online		05 September 2025

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